Research Catalog

Title

Naamiwan's drum : the story of a contested repatriaton of Anishinaabe artefacts / Maureen Matthews.

Author

Matthews, Maureen Anne, 1949-

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xi, 325 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 26 cm

Summary

• "Naamiwan's Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family and only half of the artefacts were ever returned to the museum."--
• "Maureen Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Containing fourteen beautiful colour illustrations, Naamiwan's Drum is a compelling account of repatriation as well as a cautionary tale for museum professionals."--

Subject

• University of Winnipeg. Anthropology Museum > Case studies
• Manitoba Museum > Case studies
• Ojibwa Indians > Museums > Manitoba > Case studies
• Ojibwa Indians > Manitoba > Antiquities > Case studies
• Ojibwa Indians > Material culture > Manitoba > Case studies
• Museums > Acquisitions > Manitoba > Case studies
• Museums and Indians > Manitoba > Case studies
• Cultural property > Repatriation > Manitoba > Case studies
• Cultural property > Protection > Manitoba > Case studies
• Drum > Manitoba > Case studies
• Manitoba > Antiquities > Case studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Omishoosh : a visit to the museum -- 3. Animacy : linguistic considerations -- 4. Dewe'igan : repatriation -- 5. Personhood : wiikaan and artefact -- 6. Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge : Ojibwe advocacy and revitalization -- 7. Repatriation : cultural rights and the construction of meaning -- 8. Nelson Owen : mitigwakik homecoming -- 9. Agency and artefacts : new theoretical approaches -- 10. Repatriating agency : an agency analysis of repatriation -- Appendix A: Timeline -- Appendix B: Ojibwe language notes -- Appendix C: Anishinaabemowin glossary.

ISBN

• 9781442650152 (cloth)
• 144265015X (cloth)
• 9781442628267 (paper)
• 144262826X (paper)

LCCN

^^2016461077

OCLC

• 950450590
• SCSB-12366688

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library